here where I live and work the word triggered in mental health terms means the person feels strong emotions....

examples....

when I am online, sometimes something goes on that makes me feel sad and apprehensive for others online. feeling this way is called being triggered.

sometimes I will be walking to work and a dog will start barking at me before I realize they are behind the fencing. this causes me to have a momentary panic attack. feeling this way is called being triggered.

Sometimes when I am not feeling well what someone says can make me feel very angry. feeling this way is called being triggered.

sometimes when I am reading posts, the posts words can cause me to feel upset, uncomfortable. Feeling this way is called being triggered.

A person can feel triggered any number of ways for what ever number or reasons.

here where I live and work ...dissociation

in general means a person is feeling numb, spacy, not quite connected to their self, their surroundings.

there are many different things that can cause a person to feel dissociated....

trying to nail down whether something is dissociation or not is a process of ruling in and out things that are causing the person to feel dissociative like symptoms...

here in America there are new diagnostic criteria that says things like other mental/physical health problems, drugs, alcohol, medication side effects and religious factors must be ruled out before something can be called a dissociation problem.

here is where you can read more about what dissociative disorders we have here in the USA and what treatment providers go by for dissociation problems here in the USA...

http://forums.psychcentral.com/disso...s-dsm-5-a.html

thats why with in me those many different ....dissociative like ....symptoms were called other things....

according to my treatment providers the symptoms I had after being in the room with others while they smoked weed could not be called dissociation because it was the weed that caused it.

the same with the other problems I listed...those situations were not called dissociation problems because they were caused by other mental and physical health problems,

let me use something from one of your past posts....you stated in a past post you have a history of using marijuana.

Using the ......USA...... standards before your black outs can be called a dissociation problem your treatment providers will need to figure out if your marijuana use is what has caused your black outs.

if the past or present marijuana use is whats causing the black outs then the problem will be called a medication/drug ....side effect.

if the marijuana use is not whats causing the black outs and there are other dissociative type symptoms that are not caused by other mental physical problems, meds ......not caused by anything that has to be ruled out then it will be called dissociation.